[Devel] Re: [RFC] vzctl 'make install' target

[Christian Heim]

On Saturday 01 July 2006 00:50, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:00:28PM +0200, Christian Heim wrote:
>> On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:03, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
>> >We want to fix it in next vzctl release. There are several solutions
>> >possible:
>> >
>> >(1) rename 'install' target to install-redhat, and add generic 'install'
>> >target which will not install initscript and
>> >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*venet0* stuff
>> >
>> >(2) leave install target as is and add 'install-generic' target which
>> >will do the same as 'install' from (1)
>> >
>> >(3) try to determine distro during runtime, from Makefile itself, and
>> >act appropriately
>> >
>> >(4) Pass some params to Makefile in environment, like SKIP_NETSCRIPTS or
>> >SKIP_INITSCRIPT
>> >
>> >(5) a variation of (1) -- add install-generic and install-redhat target,
>> >do nothing but print a list of possible install-* target on invocation
>> >of 'make install'.
>> >
>> >I prefer #5. What do people think? I am especially interested in hearing
>> >from Debian and Gentoo maintainers.
>>
>> Well, we don't prefer any specific, so #1, #2 or #5 would be fine with us.
>
>Likewise.  My advice is to avoid #3.

Well even if it sounds nice, #3 would be a real pain in the ass (not for me).

>> It's after all _your_ package ;)
>
>It sounds like "do whatever you want, we'll patch our package anyway" :)

Nah, we'll use whatever you guys come up with :P (at least regarding #1, #2 
and #5).

-- 
Christian Heim <phreak at gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver/openvz
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